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    Bengal BJP President bats for NRC again, says technical flaws can be overcome

    Synopsis

    The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is the latest flash point between the ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP.

    ET Bureau
    NEW DELHI: Despite the NRC in Assam missing out several names, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday said if NRC was implemented in the State, at least two crore illegal migrants will have to leave the State, which he said, will considerably reduce "the economic burden" on the State and country.

    Technical flaws and administrative omissions which occurred with the Assam NRC, he said were bound to happen "considering the enormity of the exercise" but "will be corrected soon."

    "Legitimate citizens with documents will never be asked to leave. There is no doubt about that. Bengal has also given place to Rohingyas. In every district there is violence these days. Only the implementation of NRC can address the issue of population explosion in the State," he said.

    Ghosh was interacting with reporters as part of an outreach programme, organised by ‘Save Bengal’ initiative of the BJP, that was launched through Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, a think tank affiliated to the party, last year.

    The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is the latest flash point between the ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP.

    TMC has recently passed a resolution in the floor of the Bengal Assembly slamming the NRC in Assam, in which more than 19 lakh people did not make the cut.

    Ghosh said Mamata was speaking the language of Pakistan PM Imran Khan and was "politicising the NRC issue" and was deliberately trying to project the BJP as "anti bengali."

    He said his party resorted to political violence in Bengal only when it "was necessary for survival." "Earlier people wouldn't vote for us only because they thought we couldn't win. That has changed now," he said, adding that the BJP will fare much better than 2019, in State elections in 2021.

    Anirban Ganguli who is the convener of the Save Bengal campaign said the party had also reached out to the intellectual community in Bengal and was in touch with several of them.

    "Many of them have shown us support too. Only thing is, many of the so called intellectuals who regularly condemn crime in BJP ruled States have never criticised the cycle of violence in Bengal." He said this in reference to an open letter written by famous artists, many of whom were from Bengal, to the PM on the increasing incidents of violence in the country.

    Animesh Biswas, national executive member of Yuva Morcha and co-convener of Save Bengal said that the party was reaching out to various sections of the society to popularise its vision for Bengal.


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